A few days ago, a post by Theo de Raadt analyzed the newly publicized Intel Core 2 bugs. And in just a couple of days quite a few different opinions (see http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=559, and http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070630105416) emerged. In this post, I will try to analyze from my point of view.
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Sometimes it is necessary for a main program to invoke other executables during runtime.
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In .Net, an XML file or even a CSV file can easily be mapped to an object using proper attributes. Using the reflected object type, such XML or CSV files can easily be deserialized into the corresponding object.
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If you have used System.IO.File.Exists in ASP.Net, you probably have found out that unless the account under which ASP.Net is running (e.g. ASPNET for Windows XP and IIS_WPG for Windows 2003 Server, etc) has access to a networked location (either a unc or a mapped drive, File.Exists will always return a false no matter whether the file actually exists in the location queried or not. This behavior has caused a lot of headaches for Web developers.
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I have a FreeBSD 6.2 box at home mainly for developing some UNIX/Linux based applications.
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